Teacher hauls in monster mackerel

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HOLY mackerel!

Sunshine Coast school teacher Kev Visser hooked this 36kg monster at Gneering Shoals, about 6km off Mooloolaba, on Sunday.

Kev, 26, of Kawana, said it took him 15 minutes to bring in the spanish mackerel - and it required quite a balancing act to gaff it. He said he had taken his 4.8m tinnie out to have a quiet fish by himself, trawling near the shoals.

"I thought I'd hooked a nearby boat when it first took," he said.

But when it ran, it was another story.

Kev, who teaches woodwork and graphics at Siena Catholic College at Sippy Downs, said the fish took more than 100m of line before it turned. It ran for about five minutes.

"It was quite a buzz seeing this huge fish come up right next to me," he said.